{"id":5204,"date":"2014-03-25T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2014-03-25T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T06:23:09","slug":"omar-khadr-in-saskatchewan-prison-hospital-after-surgery-on-damaged-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/25\/omar-khadr-in-saskatchewan-prison-hospital-after-surgery-on-damaged-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Khadr in Saskatchewan prison hospital after surgery on damaged shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO – Canadian detainee Omar Khadr is recuperating in a secure prison hospital in Saskatchewan following surgery on his shoulder, which was badly wounded in Afghanistan 12 years ago, The Canadian Press has learned.<\/p>\n

Khadr spent two weeks recuperating after the operation at the University of Alberta hospital in Edmonton before being discharged over the weekend.<\/p>\n

His lawyer, Dennis Edney, said surgeons scraped bone and flesh to remove infected tissue that had been festering since his detention in Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n

“Our government has long been advised that Omar suffers from serious injuries that were not treated in Guantanamo Bay,” Edney said from Edmonton.<\/p>\n

“It is only now he is having his shoulder treated, while his eyesight also demands treatment.”<\/p>\n

Correctional authorities recently reclassified Khadr, 27, and transferred him from the maximum security Edmonton Institution to the medium security Bowden Institution in Innisfail, Alta.<\/p>\n

After his discharge from hospital, he was transferred via Innisfail to the Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, a psychiatric hospital run by Correctional Service Canada.<\/p>\n

The secure facility is able to offer Khadr the 24-hour care he needs given that he is on an intense regime of intravenous antibiotics, Edney said.<\/p>\n

It’s expected he will be there for four weeks.<\/p>\n

“No effort has been made to deal with his shattered shoulder blade at this point in time, assuming it can be healed,” Edney said.<\/p>\n

Khadr was 15 when he was found horrendously injured in the rubble of a compound in Afghanistan in July 2002 following an intense four-hour fight in which an American soldier was killed and another partially blinded.<\/p>\n

The Toronto-born Canadian had been shot twice in the back and suffered shrapnel wounds to his eye.<\/p>\n

He would spend a decade in Guantanamo Bay, where he ultimately pleaded guilty to five war crimes \u2014 including murder in violation of the rules of war \u2014 before a U.S. military commission which sentenced him to a further eight years.<\/p>\n

He was transferred to Canada in September 2012 and initially incarcerated at a maximum security prison in eastern Ontario.<\/p>\n

While the Harper government has branded him an unrepentant terrorist, Canadian prison authorities have called Khadr “polite, quiet and rule-abiding,” and someone who “does not espouse the criminal attitudes or code of conduct held by most typical federal offenders.”<\/p>\n

CSC officials have also said they had no information to indicate he “espouses attitudes that support terrorist activities or any type of radicalized behaviour.”<\/p>\n

Khadr is suing the federal government for violating his rights.<\/p>\n

He’s also trying to appeal his U.S. conviction on the grounds that offences with which he was charged were not war crimes under international law. That case has essentially stalled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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